Etlmograi)hy of Micronesia. (J \ 



Utensils arc either hung from rafters or placed on two hori- 

 zontal poles or boards supported by beams and cross-beams. 



2. Kitchen-sheds. — Tlie preparation of small quantities of food, 

 the cooking, for instance, of two or three bread-fruit, is, of course, 

 done inside the house ; but large quantities are prepared in a separate 

 shed built for communal use. This Idtchen-slied resembles the 

 ordinary house, except that the former has no walls and is of 

 much I'uder structure than the latter. In Truk such kitchen-sheds 

 are built, in most cases, at some distance from the dwellings, not 

 making part of the house, as ordinary kitchens do. 



In Truk, the houses are scattered here and there in a coconut 

 grove or a thick wood of bread-fruit trees, not forming a regular 

 village as in other islands. 



3. Canoe Houses. — Regarding the primitive architecture in Truk, 

 the building known as the canoe-house is worth describing. This 

 is a house built on a large scale, often on a creek wooded with 

 mangrove trees. As the name indicates, it shelters under its roof 

 two or three large canoes of communal ownership. It serves also 

 as a sort of meeting-place (called ut by the natives), for the young 

 men who live together in this building. It covers as many as 80 

 square metres. It has a high roof with naturally large and strong 

 timbers, presenting a great contrast to an ordinary dwelling. From 

 this it would appear that the islanders of Truk are not necessarily 

 backward in the art of building, but it must be noted that the 

 canoe-house in the above island, which lacks carvings or ornaments 

 on tlie timbers, compares unfavourably with the club-houses in the 

 West Caroline Islands which possess a peculiar grandeur of their 

 own (PI. YIII, fig. 2 ; PI. XXIII, fig. 1 ; PI. XXIX). 



As will be described in the next section, there are canoe-houses 

 also in Yap and Palau. In these islands, however, they are in- 



